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Grade 2: Music/Valentine's Day
Play and sing a Valentine's song with your second graders. They'll follow along allow as you demonstrate how to sing and keep a steady beat on non-pitched percussive instruments. While the music lesson has a Valentine theme, that theme...
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Danse Macabre: Saint-Saëns
Assist your youngsters as they learn to visualize the story music can tell us. They listen to the piece "Danse Macabre" while viewing this slideshow. Each slide describes the key instrument and what creature of the dark it represents. A...
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Jazz in America
Students explore different instruments and what role they play in Jazz. They also each person's role in a democratic society.
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Loud or soft?
Send this cute activity home with kids, to increase family involvement. They'll consider what would happen if rice was bounced in a tambourine, and then they'll complete a sound activity by makings an instrument out of wax paper and a...
Physics Classroom
Name That Harmonic: Strings
Don't string your class along! Physics scholars discover the fascinating forces behind the music of stringed instruments using an interactive. From a series covering sounds and waves, the interactive asks users to identify nodes and...
Discovery Education
How's the Weather?
Young meteorologists explore different aspects of the weather while learning about measurement devices. They build instruments and then set up a weather station outside and measure temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind speed, and...
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Unscramble the Musical Instruments
Pupils unscramble musical instrument words. In this instrument lesson, students discuss the different types of musical instruments. They get a worksheet with their names and they need to unscramble them and spell the instruments correctly.
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Making and Appraising Weather Instruments
In this science and technology worksheet, students answer 5 essay questions about weather instruments. Students draw and label pictures of rainfall and air pressure instruments. There is no information here.
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Topic - Musical Instruments Word Search
In this musical instruments word search puzzle worksheet, students locate and identify the 20 instruments from the word bank. The words may appear horizontally or vertically.
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Musical Instruments
In this music worksheet, students write the name of a musical instrument that they would like to play. Students do research and list as many instruments as they can find.
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Instruments of the Orchestra- Flute and Oboe
Students name the different families in an orchestra, name many of the instruments in each family, listen to an orchestral recording to identify the flute and oboe and listen to the melody of a piece.
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Musical Terms and Instruments
In this music activity, students find the vocabulary terms related to the different types of instruments. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Musical Instruments Word Search
In this language arts instructional activity, students will be searching for words are all musical instruments. Students will locate 34 vocabulary words all pertaining to the topic.
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Measurements: instruments
In this measurement worksheet, students write what the measurement instrument is used for. Students complete 3 problems total.
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A Stomping Good Time: Using Found Instruments and Invented Rhythms to Make Beautiful Music
Students work in small groups to use everyday objects to create performances inspired by the work of STOMP. They create a system of notation to document the music and movement of a 2-minute performance.
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Arranging Patriotic Music for Instruments
High schoolers arrange a short piano composition for a group of four to six instruments of their choice. The musical arrangements should be then demonstrated and analyzed by the class as a unit study.
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Musical Role Models
Students identify instruments and their sounds and use them to model their own orchestra. After choosing an instrument to investigate further, they research to become familiar with the sound of the instrument, how the sound is created,...
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The Role of the Musician and His Instruments in the Civil War
Fifth graders listen to and discuss the music of the Civil War Era in order to better explain society during this time period. They identify the musical instruments and write their own word to accompany the music of one of the songs.
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Sound Game
Get those little ears out and ready to listen to play a game! Youngsters listen to a variety of instruments, and then determine whether the instruments are made of wood or metal. This game is interactive with fun sounds.
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Standing Waves and Music: Suggested Demonstrations
There are four embedded links in this brief resource that take you to handouts or worksheets that assist young musicians in understanding standing sound waves. They'll play their instruments to show and then discuss different sound waves.
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Pitched Instruments of African Music
In this African music worksheet, students read about the kora and the xylophone which are types of pitched instruments. A glossary is included in the 2 page article.
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9 Easy to Make Musical Instruments for Kids
Students create various musical instruments out of everyday and recycled items.
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Latin American Music
Learn about the music of Latin America! Four types of music are defined by their instruments, uses, and cultural impact or influences. Indigenous, Iberian, African influenced, and Urban music are all discussed.
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My (musical) Valentine
Get out those bells, sand blocks, and sticks! Your kindergarteners use their singing voices to ask and answer friendly questions while keeping rhythm. They take turns in a group and in pairs singing questions and answers while keeping...
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